The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-04-15
THE EAST.

Miss CAROLINE LoRILLARD WOLFE, worth
$90O0O.000. died in New York on the 4th,
aged sixty.
AN unknown two-masted schooner was
lost off Nantucket, Mass, recently. The
crew were probably drowned.
AN eXtensive strike of stonemasons and
their laborers and mortar mixers took
place at Boston on the 5th. The object Of
the strike was to obtain nine hours per day
with wages for ten hours.
THE Merchants Exchange of San Fran
cisco recently received a dispatch stating
that the bark Eldorado, Captain Humphrey,
from Seattle, with a cargo Of coal, had
foundered off Cape Flattery, and all but
two of the crew of twelve were lost. The
vessel was 1,076 tons burden. She was
valued at $4,000 and was partly insured.
1t was also reported that the ship st.
Stephen, from Seattle, coal laden, had been
lost. She was owned in New York.
THE will of Mary H. Pelton, the sister of
the late Samuel j. Tilden, was admitted to
probate on the 9th. The testatrix be-
queathed all her property to her grand
daughter, Laura A. Pelton, wife of w. A.
Hazard
THE Philadelphia police have been in
structed positively to see that the Sunday
and other moral reform laws are strictly
enforced.
THE Chesapeake nail works. Harrisburg,
Pa, employing about 200 men, and the
Lochiel Il Paxton furnace ceased opera
tions recently until railroad and trans
portation companies reached some conclu-
sion regarding freight rates. Mill owners
said they could not continue business I'M
der the Interstate act as interpreted. Sew
eral hundred, men were thrown out of en-
ployment.
FIRE in a large building in Congress
square, Boston, recently, caused SlOO. ZOO
damage to the State printers and alike sum
to other firms.
A BILL has been passed by the Peunsylva-
mia Senate providing that the punishment
for murder in the first degree may be death
by the use of electricity.
As NEAR as could be ascertained on the
5th the Rhode Island House stands q Re
publicans and 20 Democrats, and the Senate
IS Republicans and 10 Democrats, with four
cities or towns to be heard from.
A DISTINCT earthquake tremor terrified
the inhabitants of Contocook, n. H., on the
9Th. The vibrations came from the east and
loud detonations were heard like claps of
thunder.
The lives of about 200 persons were jeop-
ardized by fire which broke out at night
in the tenement house, u Essex street. New
York, recently. They were rescued by
tiremen, about twenty being more or less
injured.
THE schedules in the assignment of L.
Levinson & Co., New York clothiers, show
liabilities. S295. 40; nominal assets, S330, $50
actual assets, Sl13, 439.
THE places of the workmen at Jones &
Laughlln's iron mill at Pittsburgh, Pa.
who struck few days ago have been filed
by new men. The locked out workmen
made applications to be organized into an
assembly of the Knights of Labor, but were
refused on account of being on a strike.
BRIckLAYERs Unions /, 3. 9, IA and 80 the
Lathers' L nion. the Carpenters and Joiners'
Association and the Stonemasons' Union,
all OF Brooklyn, went on a strike on the 9TH.
A FOREST fire was reported raging in the
timber land west of Port jefferson, L. L.
Much damage was done.
j. II. HART. William kissane'S LAWYER
intimates that after he gets things settled
up in New York he is going back to Cali
fornia TO make things lively for his client s
enemies.
A SINGULAR accident occurred the other
night on the Fitchburg railway at Prison
Point station, Charleston. Mass. A freight
train became deralled and ran into a switch
house where the switch hands were sleep
ing All of the men were injured. Law
renee O'Brien probably fatally.
FoUR thousand two hundred and seventy
three immigrants were landed in Castle
Garden April S, the largest number in one
day at this season of the year since Castle
Garden was first used as reception place
for immigrants.